Lightly Peated

The Making of Tormore – Neil Gunn

Neil Gunn was a novelist. His life’s work was fiction but he was an understandable, coherent individual, reserved yet sociable, someone generally liked,…

The Making of Tormore – Finding a Site

“Some five years ago I received a letter from the late Lord Bracken (whom I had then not met) saying some friends…

The Making of Tormore – Why Richardson? Why Bracken?

I want to use this post to double underline how singular the Tormore building is and how it would not have been anywhere near…

The Making of Tormore – Brendan Bracken

The Tormore Connection Lewis Rosenstiel was an unpredictable boss. He was the only authority in his company but his decisions were affected by…

The Making of Tormore – Lewis Rosenstiel

The man who built Tormore was Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley Industries, one of the biggest liquor companies in the world, a titan…

The Making of Tormore – Introduction

On the 20th July 1957, in Bedford, Harold Macmillan made a speech about rising prosperity and for the first time used the phrase…

Deanston Linked With Loch Lomond

I thought I had closed my book on Deanston but what do you know – research is never finished as there is always…

Arkwright and Deanston

You start with an interest in whisky but before you know it you are looking at cotton and the rise of the factory…

Deanston

I never promised that this blog would be in any way current. Never promised to keep my finger on the pulse or…

The Talisker Chicken

Outside the Talisker distillery there is a hut that sells good coffee and tray bakes. This morning, having driven up from Fort William…